This is the Bitstream Charter typeface (TrueType format) which is freely distributable. This copy has been re-encoded to add additional accented characters in code points between 128 and 255 according to the Computer Sanskrit (CS) character scheme. This is described in a document included in iass.zip, available from ftp.bcc.ac.uk:/pub/users/ucgadkw/indology. A copy of the main document from this zip file is enclosed, in PostScript format, as file charset.ps. NB the encoding of the enclosed Bitstream Charter is CS, not CSX. The latter encoding, which is a super-set of CS, may be done if time allows. This reencoding was done by Dr. Peter Friedlander, using Type Designer. Some refinements might be made in the area of hinting the newly-created characters (the original chars in the font are still hinted), but the font is certainly useful and good-looking as it is, and perfectly okay for high-resolution output. I translated the PS form of the font to TrueType, and I have tinkered with some character positions to optimize the font for use with MS Word for Windows 6.0. The fonts (normal roman, italic, bold, bold italic) are named according to Karl Berry's font naming scheme, where b = bitstream ch =charter r, b, i = roman, bold, italic 8 = escape character meaning "here comes another coding scheme letter" i = Indic (CS). For documentation on this naming scheme, see the files at the internet site ftp.cs.umb.edu:/pub/tex/fontname. Dominik Wujastyk d.wujastyk@ucl.ac.uk July 1995